Chapter 5: The Beginning

Guo Baolin shrank back, as if he was afraid that Lin Quan would assign him to sell melons.

"In and out of the railway station, there are four passages, between the two bus transfer stations, there are also people coming and going, although the flow of people at the long-distance bus station is not as good as the railway station, but it is also the largest long-distance bus station in Jiangbei, I hope that Sister Fang Nan will occupy all these places."

"Why don't I think your eyes are right today, riding around the car, but there is a little less silver in your eyes, it turns out that you are thinking about this matter. Do you want to take all of them? Guo Baolin's eyes are bright and bright, like a mouse who sees the dawn.

"In places with a lot of people, I took a general look, and I had to go around in the afternoon, and I determined that it would take ** people."

"Where do you find so many people? I'll go and talk to my Lao Tzu, and first lend him 10,000 yuan to come out as an envoy. ”

"No, have you ever seen a white wolf with empty gloves? This is a deal without capital, and it is only enough for us to toss around in the past two months, temporarily find four people, guard the station square, and see the situation in other places in two days. ”

"We don't have to pay our salaries in advance, otherwise how can people trust us?"

"I'll figure out a way, you have to wrap up the rotten melons in the fruit and vegetable wholesale market, and take so many sets of clothes from the restaurant at once, so many guys, you have no problem over there?"

Guo Baolin's neck was there, and after thinking for a while, he couldn't think of what idea Lin Quan's mind was turning. There are only four waiters in the restaurant, and when you take out a ** set of clothes, you have to pull off all the waiters. However, Guo Baolin was excited about the empty glove white wolf, and agreed vaguely in his mouth.

Fang Nan was also excited when he thought about it, and leaned over and asked, "Then what am I doing?" ”

Lin Quan glanced at her, a little unbearable, but let him do those things of peeling and cutting all day long, it would be even more unbearable: "Cantaloupe has to be thrown away if it is a little rotten, this solar term, there are no less than sixteen or seventeen stalls selling cantaloupe in the wholesale market, and it is not a problem to recycle two or three hundred rotten melons every day, and the matter of peeling and cutting pieces really can't be done by outsiders." It's ready, and I have to send it to the station, so I have to let you come with Guo Zi. ”

"It's none of your business to find someone?"

Guo Baolin's widening eyes made people feel chills in their hearts, and Lin Quan hurriedly explained: "There must be someone who is flexible, where there is a shortage of manpower, I have to help." ”

"What are you talking about?"

Lin Quan's head was raised, and Guo Baolin's mother was standing behind him, and her hand was about to fall on his shoulder. Zhou Yazhen had many fine lines on her face, but she couldn't hide the fact that she was once as beautiful as a flower, her hand was pressed on Lin Quan's shoulder, but her eyes were looking at Fang Nan. Guo Yazhen is afraid of a lot of people, and when there are too many people, she will have a migraine, and although the restaurant is busy at noon, she usually doesn't come to the front. When she came out now, it was probably someone who had gone to the back and spouted.

Fang Nan was wearing a light cyan skirt worn by the special waitresses of the Eight Bowls Restaurant, sitting with a graceful figure, shoulder-length hair hanging down softly, at this time she was not tired and haggard when she just got off the train yesterday, her delicate face was as smooth as jade, her eyebrows and eyes were like the moon, and her brilliance was connoisseurship. Whoever sees her with us can't help but run to Zhou Yazhen and talk more.

"Aunt Guo, this is the sister I met with Guo Zigang, and I'm talking about summer practice at this time."

Guo Baolin likes to twist his head with his family in everything, which reflects Lin Quan's well-behaved and sensible, Zhou Yazhen treats him closer than his own son, and sits down next to him: "Little man, the chef has just changed in the building, you haven't come to eat yet, make a few things for you to taste." As he spoke, his eyes did not take his eyes off Fang Nan.

Fang Nan was a little weak-hearted, he yawned slightly, and he didn't dare to sit down, he nodded at Zhou Yazhen, and wanted to call her aunt like Lin Quan, but he couldn't open his mouth.

Zhou Yazhen smiled: "The little girl is good-looking, but her surname is cold, and it is rare to have a girl's fate." You call me like a little girl, oh, what should I call you? ”

"Aunt Guo, just call me Xiao Nan."

Guo Baolin didn't like to listen to his mother's words, so he took the chopsticks covered with aluminum and silver and knocked on the cups and saucers; Fang Nan called her in accordance with Zhou Yazhen's tone, which made Guo Baolin's heart even more unhappy, Lin Quan's eyes glanced elsewhere, but he ignored his feelings.

This morning, Lin Quan was full of the matter of selling melons, and he didn't notice that the decoration in the building was obviously different from the last time, and then he heard Zhou Yazhen say that the chef in the building had also changed, so he leaned over and asked Guo Baolin: "When did the restaurant decorate it?" ”

"This year, the small fourth floor, the annex building to the north, and the courtyard behind have all changed their surnames to Guo, and the old man has changed his timid and fearful style, saying that he wants to make the eight big bowls go up two grades. Last month, you refused to accompany me back to Jinghai in school, and it was during that time that you decorated. ”

Guo Dequan stood at the top of the stairs and coughed lightly, Lin Quan looked up and saw his angry face, perhaps to prevent Guo Baolin from saying anything ugly. Lin Quan suddenly remembered, standing in his position and looking down, maybe he could see more content from Fang Nan's neckline.

Guo Dequan bought the entire store, and the restaurant does not have to pay rent when it is open, no wonder Guo Dequan is bold and wants to open a high-standard restaurant, but the original store is too popular and is no longer suitable for the new style and grade, Lin Quan turned his head sideways and asked Guo Yazhen: "The restaurant wants to change the name of the store?" ”

"I have this idea, but the name of the Eight Big Bowls has been used for almost ten years, and I am still a little hesitant to change it." Guo Dequan walked down the stairs, sat opposite Fang Nan, beckoned Yi Ping, the cashier standing behind the counter, to come over, and whispered a few orders to let her go to the back to pass the word to the chef. Turning his head to look at me, "The procedures for industry and commerce have been completed, and now it is a trial operation, and the license will be officially changed at the end of the month." I posted a post from the municipal party committee, but can you ask Secretary-General Zhao to come and patronize a few more times before this? ”

Lin Quan understood why Guo Dequan ruthlessly changed the name of the store that had been used for nearly ten years. Geng Yimin straightened up and became Jing'an's parent official, and Zhao Zeng, who had followed Geng Yimin for ten years, also rose to the top and became the deputy secretary-general of the municipal party committee. Through Zhao Zeng's relationship, as long as the restaurant becomes the designated consumption restaurant of a certain bureau, it can bring Guo Delin many times more profits than before. Whether Zhao Zeng can help or not, Guo Dequan's face is definitely not enough, Guo Dequan still hopes on the relationship between the Lin family and Zhao Zeng.

Lin Quan knew his father Lin Mingda's temper, and he would never ask for help in these matters, so the hand holding the chopsticks stopped on the plate without squeaking.

Guo Dequan knew that Lin Quan was young, but he didn't have the frivolity of his son's surname Gerry at all, seeing his solemn face, he knew that he had understood what he meant, so he quickly changed the topic: "Tell me about your summer practice." ”

"There's nothing to say, the school stipulates that the summer social practice must reach 20 days, Guo Zi told me that being idle is also idle, finding something to do, and passing the time can also mix up a little money to spend."

"Can he have that in mind?" Guo Dequan's tone was disdainful, but he couldn't suppress his joy between his eyebrows. Jinghai has an old saying, praising other people's wives is likely to cause people to be wary; Praise other people's sons, no one will be in a hurry to deny it.

Lin Quan thought of his relationship with Guo Baolin, although he had the feeling of being used by Guo Dequan, he couldn't ignore the matter of the restaurant: "What is the name of the restaurant?" ”

"Xiushui Pavilion."

Lin Quan looked up at the moat outside the window, where the water was sparkling and the willows were still around, and the name Xiushui Pavilion was in contrast to this building and this water. It's just that the name of the restaurant and the change of business style have a great impact on the restaurant. It seems that the change in the style of the restaurant has caused the restaurant to lose its original diners, and it has not attracted new diners.

Guo Dequan smiled, but his brows would be entangled unconsciously, and when he realized it, he would show a deep smile again to dispel the worries in his heart.

Lin Quan didn't think too much about it at the time, after lunch, he rode to the station square, Fang Nan sat on the back frame of the car, dragging the back of his clothes, and when he was about to reach the station square, he realized that this would make Lin Quan very uncomfortable, and he didn't change his waist, but reached out and grabbed the bracket under the car cushion.

The rat was squatting on the steps under the door of the south hall of the waiting room, smoking a cigarette and trying to spit out thin smoke rings; Two young men wearing sleeveless vests with blue and white tattoos on their shoulders squatted behind him on the first step of cement clay, enjoying the cold air coming out of the door. Seeing Lin Quan riding over, the mouse stood up, wanting to go over to say hello to him, but felt that he would lower his identity.

Lin Quan stepped on the steps with one foot, supporting the balance of the car, and Fang Nan jumped down early and stood on his left side.

Seeing that the rat couldn't dodge, he went down the stairs with his neck shackled.

Finding people has to be done by rats, and women who peddle fake train tickets, yellow tickets, telephone magnetic cards, and solicit and intercept passengers for small hotels and long-distance buses roam in the crowd of people in the station square, and they all have to act according to the faces of the rats. Lin Quan asked the rat to find a few such people, good looking, at least to look clean and tidy, cantaloupe is a yuan a piece, sell a piece for a dime commission, how much money does he give others Lin Quan didn t ask. But lest they hide the money from selling melons and swallow it, they must first collect their ID cards.

Fang Nan sold more than 300 yuan of melons in the morning, and the mouse knew it in his heart, but he only took a share of it, and he also gave it to the person who sold the melon, his face showed embarrassment, and he just didn't agree with it. Lin Quan planned that he would have to ask for 20%, but before that, he told him about the cost of buying melons, and the family had to arrange two people, and the melon sellers wore eight bowls of uniform dress, and they would cut off a piece for Guo Baolin and his father Guo Baldzi, and he personally earned less than a mouse: "Our batch of cantaloupe is all connected by the restaurant, and it is cheaper than the wholesale price of Yushuanglu Market, Guo Zi has a lot of shares, why don't you go and tell him?" ”

The mouse's face changed, and Lin Quan didn't know how Guo Baolin fixed the yellow hair and the parrot head in the morning, which made the mouse feel angry now. The mouse thought for a while: "I will find this person for you, and I will tell you about our friendship, I can't ask for this money, I have to give it to the melon seller." ”

Lin Quan hadn't been able to remember the name of the mouse at this time, and he couldn't remember any friendship with him. After a few words of hypocrisy, he rode towards the stronghold with Fang Nan.

Turning into the cement road at the gate of the courtyard, Fang Nan couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "It didn't cost much to pick up those melons, did it?" ”

"You don't have to spend money to pick it up, I really bought it from Guo Zi at the wholesale market with Guo Zi, ten yuan." Lin Quan exaggerated when he said ten yuan, Fang Nan listened to it and giggled in the back, and the back wheel of the car was shook, and he was shocked. Fang Nan threw herself forward, her hand pressed on Lin Quan's back, and she felt her hair ruffle her back.

Fang Nan didn't take her hand back, she half-pulled her clothes and put her palms against Lin Quan's back, on a hot day, through the thin cotton shirt, but she felt her hands cold: "Just the way you bluffed just now, I almost believed you." That's when I know why you put on empty gloves and white wolves, giving people one hair, you are nine hairs white. ”

"It's for nothing, but it took me a lot of brains, didn't I put all three of us in it?"

It sounds strange to people, it seems to be doing a bad thing, but it can make people closer, when they arrived at the place where they lived, Fang Nan looked calm, and he no longer had the restraint of the morning, as if he didn't know Lin Quan yesterday.